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It Doesn't Seem So Dark ( a stairwell e​.​p​.​)

by Katie Dill

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all i have is love all i have is love all i have is love all i have is love love is all i have every single day deep within my heart love is all that lays. love is all i have though you've gone away still i bring you love still no love you take but still love all is i all is love i have though no take you love take is all i ask love is all i have and all i have is love i got it from from no god above ...but from his Love. all i have is love love is all i have though you never call though you never asked for me to give you love and to leave it there forever, for you to take all that you dare. all that i dared was to give you love which, it turns out, is a lot harder than i ever suspected. and i guess you can't take it. i guess you can't take it yet. and until you do, or if you never do, if you never do, or until you do, or if you never do, or until you do i will give you love cause all i have is love love is all i have (when you're gone) love is all i have (when you're gone) you take away the rest but i have my love and i'll pass it along if you can feel it comin' in the air while you're runnin'... surely i'm lovin'... ...so you can feel my love.
2.
his father was a drinker and his mother cried in bed, folding johnwaynes t shirts when the swingset hit his head, the neighbors they adored him for his humour and his conversation, look underneath the house there, find the few living things rotting fast in their sleep, oh the dead. twenty-seven people, even more, they were boys, with their cars, summer jobs, oh my god... are you one of them? he dressed up like a clown for them, with his facepaint white and red, and on his best behavior, in a dark room, on the bed, he kissed them all. he'd kill ten-thousand people with the slight of his hand, running far, running fast to the dead, he took off all their clothes for them, he put a cloth on their lips, quite hands, quiet kiss on the mouth. and in my best behavior, i am really just like him. look beneath the floorboards for the secrets i have hid.
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Falling 08:57
i i'm falling, and i don't know where i'm falling. i i'm falling, and i don't know why i'm falling. and it's never going to stop! and it's never going to stop! and it's never going to stop! no, it's never going to stop. we're dying and we don't care why we're dying. cause we're we're flying!!! and we don't care why we're flying and it's never going to stop and it's never going to stop and it's never going to stop no, it's never going to stop. aah..
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my life is full of soft, full of hard, and full of gentle, my life is full of gentle, my life is full of gentle, and when i touch, i must make it, i must make it sentimental, cause this body's only rental, this body's only rental. and lonely is what you make it, what you make it, what you make it, and i am sure to make it, yes i am sure to make it, but a smile ain't a smile if you fake it, if you fake it, so pick your risk and take it, so pick your risk and take it. oooh oohh oohhh and in September, summer sits like autumn leaves upon the water, like leaves upon the water, like leaves upon the water, and in December, breath is short, eyes are cold, and hearts are harder, but ice is still just water, but ice is still just water. and on the third, in the rain, in the rain, we were swayin', oh swayin', swayin', swayin', oh swayin', swayin', swayin', there we heard what the rain, what the rain was really sayin': that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in. that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in, and the rain is warm in heaven, the rain is warm in heaven, and they were on their way in, and they were on their way in. that they were on
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song 1: KATIE ANNA PERRY: Katie Anna Perry, locked within the city, the walls came down around her, the walls came down around her. Katie Anna Perry, always in a hurry, her mother didn't know her, she was so very pretty. and oh, i know i've lost her. and i know it doesn't cross her mind, cause love always surrounds her, but i'm so glad i found her. Katie Anna Perry, New Orleans without me, Kentucky made her crazy, and so did i, i'm sorry. Katie Anna Perry, her answer always "maybe", we couldn't be together, but she said she'd have my babies. and i can't breathe without her, and all my dreams are about her, sometimes can't stand to be around her, but i'm so glad i found her. the walls came down around her the walls came down around her the walls came down around her the walls came walls came down around her walls came down around her walls came down around her walls came down around her the walls came down around her around her around her walls came down. song 2: BABEEZ ONLY! we live for eachother inside every day and we forget the other who keeps us asleep when really we know we are awake and we long for a baby who lives in our minds and we're told that maybe somewhere in this life we'll get it right. but our footsteps are running all over the place and my arms they are empty and so is the kiss on my face. and i'm Lonely, and i'm scared, that the future, it doesn't hold what i want to be there. and i'm sorry for my words, i wish i didn't even know how to hurt. but i do! and i did! and it's almost over.. the time when we've been together, i fear. one thing is clear: you are not here. it's ok it's ok cause you can't take it away what keeps me awake and what makes me stay and what brought me to this place you can't take it away its inside and it lives through your lies and your deaths and my fights and i've never been lonely cause i've never been alone though sometimes it feels like it when i'm all at home by the phone waiting for someone to make me my own. and really it's silly cause i'm sitting with a Dilly and a mitten in my spot in my open world is off can is frozen life is chosen for the people who deserve it, here is the steeple here is the church and all who are in it hopin' they're gettin to the finish line with something extra before them a little package that they have saved and scrimped to be here with them at this moment so they don't feel so alone! so they don't feel so alone so they feel at home anywhere they can raise their hands in prayer, they don't feel alone in their hearts when they're takin it apart, it doesn't seem so dark! it doesn't seem so dark. love comes from all kinds of places' and from all kinds of faces come the words of love, but it don't mean that they will give you love. they might not give you love. but they can't take it away it's ok it's ok they can't take it away it's ok it's ok no one can take it away till i say. it's my love, ok? can't take it away not today, not today.

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recorded by Corwin Wickersham in Trabant Student Center stairwell, University of Delaware, Newark DE

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released April 6, 2011

all songs original except John Wayne Gacy Jr. written by Sufjan Stevens

album art: dill+uke on Venice Beach CA, by Angela Corradino

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Katie Dill is a musician and comedian living in Philadelphia, PA. Singer/songwriter from the band Mean Lady as well. email thekatiedill@gmail.com

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